Tents & Pyramids: Games & Ideology in Arab Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780863563348)

This study deals with an unusual and absorbing topic: how the Arabs see and deal with reality and the implications this has for the nature of power in the Arab world. Tents and pyramids are, metaphorically, opposed mental images; the first signifies the absence of hierarchy and graded authority, the second the presence of both, Khuri argues that the Arabs perceive both social and physical reality as a series of discrete, non-pyramidal structures that are inherently equal in value - much like a Bedouin encampment composed of tents scattered haphazardly on a flat desert surface with no visible hierarchy.

Author: Fuad I. Khuri
ISBN-10: 0863563341
ISBN-13: 9780863563348
Publisher: Saqi Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 170
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.46w x 0.68d